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List of artists featured in Catalogue 1
Dr. Willie Bester, Bercia Roos, Keith Zenda, Jo Rogge, Heike Taschner Jeske, St John Fuller, Bulumko Mbete, Phumzile Buthelezi and Kathy Robins,
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"I am sometimes tempted to go to the seaside and to paint beautiful things from nature. But I do not do it because my art has to be taken as a nasty tasting medicine for awakening consciences." - Dr. Willie Bester
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Bercia Roos
Bercia Roos is an artist who finds beauty and purpose in discarded items. An interiordecorator and fashion designer by profession, she continued creatingthree-dimensional artfrom discarded and pre-loved materials aftercompleting her first recycled art figurine as abirthday gift for a special friend. She explores rebirth and connections to the past through therepurposing of junk and scrap from various sources, from found objects to her husband’sworkshop and Johannesburg’s salvage yards -
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St John Fuller
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Artist StatementA lot of those who know KingCanuteknow him as the foolish King who, in a moment of hubris,tried to stop the tide from coming in. But this is not so. The actuallegendis that the King wastrying todemonstrate to his courtiers that he had no power of the sea.We are living in age where behaviour needs to dramatically change, yet only thesmallest steps are been taken. We arenot the wise Canute but instead theall the foolishone.Despite the overwhelming evidence that continually confronts uswe do not seem to want tochange our behaviours.Weare facing an incoming tide that we may be able to stop, and yet weseem to be ignoring this opportunity. What action we do take is often just piecemeal. Enough tomake us think we are doing something, but it isnot enough.Thesculpturesthat I have createdaremade from found bits of brick. These have beencollected from beaches around the Cape Peninsula. They are relics of buildings that were builttoo close to the sea.andhave already succumbed to the energy of the ocean.As one last effort to prove that man is stronger than nature, I have imagined the piecesassembling themselves into golems. Their behaviour mimicking that of the Iron Man in the TedHughesshort story, the pieces of brick come together to form human like figures.In this storyThe Iron Man saves the world. I imagine that these golems would like to do so as well.They have taken it upon themselves to act as warnings to humankind. When they placethemselves at the waters edge, we will see that they are unable to resist the incoming tides andthat they will soon be drowned
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Catalogue 1: Sustainability Artworks
In the 'Sustainability Artworks' category, artists explore sustainability through their narratives and the mediums they work with. These artists, much like nature itself, emphasize the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. By delving into this cycle, they also address critical issues such as poverty, rectification, and racial injustice, all while advocating for climate justice.
At the heart of their work is an acknowledgment that a significant part of the problem lies in our lack of awareness, which often leads us to overlook the sensory and emotional connections we have with the environment and nature. This awareness gap highlights a deep sorrow that exists within humanity, one that is reflected in the challenges faced by Mother Nature herself